THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ACGWINLOGIN

The Cygwin DLL has a console driver that emulates a Unix-style terminal in the Home windows console. Cygwin's default person interface will be the bash shell working from the Cygwin console. The DLL also implements pseudo terminal (pty) equipment. Cygwin ships with numerous terminal emulators which can be based upon them, together with mintty, rxvt